Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
10 places in town are on the National Register. Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1898 on, and the census since 1820.
Schoharie dates its founding to 1718 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1820.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Schoharie’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Schoharie. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Schoharie.
Peaked at 5,534 in 1840; 3,107 people lived here in 2020.
21 censuses, 1820–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Schoharie’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Schoharie.
This area was long occupied by indigenous peoples; in the historic period, the Mohawk people, one of the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy, dominated this territory, ranging up to the St. Lawrence River and east to the Hudson.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Schoharie, cut from the printed page as they were published.
instrumental in effecting a settlement of the suits brought against the county by several towns of the county (including the town of Schoharie), when the law went into effect requiring the amount raised by ta.vation of the railroads in tcnvns having a bonded railroad debt to be deposited with the county treasurer as a sinking fund with which to meet the
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the southwest corner of the town of Carlisle, thence along the south bounds of Carlisle to the west line of the town of Schoharie, thence along the west line of the town of Schoharie and Middleburgh to the north bounds of the town of Jefferson, and thence along the said north bounds to the place of beginning, shall be and continue a town by the name of Cobelskill.
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commenced his career as a teacher, being employed in 1865 and 1866 in Berne. Afterward he was principal of schools in the village of Schoharie, in Middleburg, and Wright, and in other places in Schoharie and Albany Counties, for a continuous period of twenty years. In 18SS Mr. Alverson was elected School Commissioner of the F"irst Dis-
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Born hereThomas Lawyer is born here
In the archiveHenry Krausharr in the 1790 United States census
In the archiveSchoharie (Township)
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey2 decades in the archive, from the 1790s to the 1860s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Schoharie’s page.
Retake this view · +15The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
In 1718, according to Wikidata. Schoharie’s post office opened in 1815, and the census of 1820 counted 3,820 people here.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (4), Wikidata (1), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia) and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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